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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC), currently the No.1 chipmaker in mainland China, recently announced it has singed agreements with the Beijing Municipal Government's organizations over co-opening an advanced silicon wafer fab in the chipmaker's factory area in the city. The deal came to light at the Hong Kong Stock Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., where SMIC is listed. According...

Although Taiwan's semiconductor industry saw its revenue for the first quarter of the year decline 3.1% from a quarter earlier, the industry is projected to see a substantial 14.3% quarter-on-quarter growth in the second quarter, according to market research organization Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK). In the first quarter, the local industry scored revenue of NT$360.1 billion ...

Independent package and test vendors are generally known as OSAT or ASAT. In 1997, the OSAT industry scale was no more than USD5.1 billion or so, making up 19.6% of the semiconductor industry, as opposed to the market size of USD23.6 billion in 2011. Owning to the fact that TSV technology advances slowly and that foundries are designed to assume partial package business, the OSAT market scale...